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Speaker 1: On this episode of Newsworld. When Italian immigrant Francesco Cabrini

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Speaker 1: arrived in America in eighteen eighty nine, she was greeted

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Speaker 1: Armed with a fearless spirit and a compassionate heart, Cabrini

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Speaker 1: orphan children. Despite broken English and poor health, Cabrini leverages

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Speaker 1: her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike

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Speaker 1: anything the world had ever seen. Now. Mother Cabrini's life

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Speaker 1: is celebrated in the new film Cabrini, which opened this

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Speaker 1: weekend in theaters nationwide and is directed by Alejandro Monteverdi

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Speaker 1: and produced and distributed by Angel Studios. Here to talk

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Speaker 1: about Mother Cabrini and their new film, I'm really pleased

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Speaker 1: to welcome my two guests, Jeff Harmon, co founder and

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Speaker 1: Chief Content Officer of Angel Studios, and Eduardo Rostage, executive

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Speaker 1: producer for the film. Jeff and EDWARDO, thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining me on news World.

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Speaker 2: Great to be here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Oh this will like so much to work you guys

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Speaker 1: have been doing through Angel Studios. Jeff, can you talk

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Speaker 1: about the founding of Angel Studios? I mean, you grew

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Speaker 1: up working on potato farms. Somehow that wasn't the normal

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I grew up in the middle of nine children, six

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Speaker 2: that would eventually be an executive at a top ten

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Speaker 1: How do you move from potatoes to movies?

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Speaker 2: When I went to university my roommates. Two of my roommates,

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Speaker 2: Angel And another one is a major YouTuber called Devin Supertramp.

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Speaker 2: They introduced me to film and I had sell skills

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Speaker 2: so my brothers and I we would take my grandpa's

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Speaker 2: trying to market a product called ore Brush, and we

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Speaker 2: which blew up built a large company. Then we built

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Speaker 1: So you early on though, are doing like two to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've ever seen like the squatty potty pooping

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Speaker 1: You're making a good living, you have a niche that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my brother Neil, who's the CEO of Angel Studios

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Speaker 2: And I was resistant to it. I didn't want to

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Speaker 2: what if we do this? The system will accumulate. The

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Speaker 2: built Tuttle Twins, which is a kid series that teaches

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Speaker 2: that we eventually settled out of, and we have built

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Speaker 1: Well, what's amazing about Angel Studios is both how you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so when we got sued by Disney, this came

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Speaker 2: And the Jobs Act had just passed, which Obama had signed,

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Speaker 2: we were the ninth company to try this, and we

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Speaker 2: took it to our customers and said, we don't have

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Speaker 2: He called me and he said, Jeff, do you realize

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Speaker 2: what you just stumbled onto. We can now fund major

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Speaker 2: this is we bring together people who want to see

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Speaker 2: We make it. And the first big project we crowdfunded

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Speaker 2: was the Chosen. That was seventeen thousand investors invested in

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Speaker 1: Did you have any idea when you launched The Chosen

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Speaker 2: We hoped, so we pitched Dallas. So this is a

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Speaker 2: an Orthodox Jew, sends over this short film called The Shepherd,

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Speaker 2: and it's the pilot episode of The Chosen, and I

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Speaker 2: this Chosen series. But we did not think that this

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Speaker 2: the world. And that's probably the closest thing we had.

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Speaker 2: But now it's over. I think it's close to two

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Speaker 1: You go from there and you create the Sound of Freedom,

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Speaker 1: which is an astonishing movie. I remember being with Eduardo

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Speaker 2: Eduardo, you're the one who made that film over eight

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Speaker 2: years while we were fighting. I know we hadn't met

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Speaker 3: Well, it's crazy, how you know.

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Speaker 4: In one hand, it's a little bit more than eight

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Speaker 4: years now, almost nine years twenty fifteen. Actually, when I

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Speaker 3: You know, I was just finishing the lunching of Little

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Speaker 4: It's a movie that we did before Some of Freedom,

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Speaker 3: Practice the corporal works of mercy.

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Speaker 4: And I was pretty much using the movie to inspire

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Speaker 4: For me, this is a true feminist movement, women that

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Speaker 4: I'm powered by God. You know, every single woman that

436
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Speaker 4: has got in the center of their lives. Whatever they do,

437
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,239
Speaker 4: whatever they taught, miracles happens. And my hope with this

438
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Speaker 4: film is that when people come to see it, when

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Speaker 4: fathers bring their daughters to see this film, my hope

440
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Speaker 4: is that when they leave the theater, they will live

441
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Speaker 4: not only entertained, but these young women that will leave

442
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Speaker 4: wanting to become more like a Brany and not like Barbie.

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Speaker 2: So I am a father of daughters. I have five

444
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Speaker 2: daughters and one boy, and my oldest sister twelve, and

445
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Speaker 2: my next one is ten. My ten year old and

446
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 2: my twelve year old watched this early and my ten

447
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 2: year old said, this is my favorite movie of all time.

448
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: And she's planning right now her girl night with her

449
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Speaker 2: friends to go see Kabrini and to be able to

450
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Speaker 2: have ten year olds watching Mother Kabrini's example in this

451
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Speaker 2: film and wanting to model their lives after somebody like her.

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Speaker 2: This is girl Dad approved movie.

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Speaker 4: This is something that I want to say that is very,

454
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Speaker 4: very very powerful for all of us, and we are

455
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Speaker 4: very grateful to the filmmakers, especially independent filmmaking. You know,

456
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 4: you always go against the current, against establishment, against everything right.

457
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 4: I'm used to like working films where takes years for

458
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Speaker 4: us to put the movie out in theaters. So in

459
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Speaker 4: Bella it took us like five years Little Boy five years,

460
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Speaker 4: Son of Freedom eight years.

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Speaker 3: I imagine all the patients and all this.

462
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Speaker 4: But because of the success of Son of Freedom, because

463
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Speaker 4: of the support of Angel Studios, this is the first

464
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Speaker 4: film Cabrini that we finished the film just last December,

465
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Speaker 4: and I can believe that now we're in theaters like

466
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Speaker 4: three months later after we finished the film.

467
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Speaker 3: Now things are going to be I'm not saying that easy,

468
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Speaker 3: but less difficult.

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Speaker 4: We don't have to wait for years to put movies

470
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Speaker 4: out there because the success of Son of Freedom now

471
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Speaker 4: open the doors for us to finish the film on

472
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Speaker 4: time and then put the movie in theeters on time.

473
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Speaker 3: Because now we have.

474
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Speaker 4: A partner that we didn't have before, which is Angel Studios.

475
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 4: You know, we compliment each other in a way that

476
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Speaker 4: is just godlee and divine.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious, Jeff, what was it about Mother Cabrini. San

478
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Speaker 1: Cabrini and she became the most affected your.

479
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Speaker 2: Daughters, one of my daughters. She was asked. She was

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00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 2: at the premier of Cabrini in New York and one

481
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Speaker 2: of the press people asked her, what if there's a

482
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Speaker 2: woman in her life that's like Cabrini. And she actually

483
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Speaker 2: pointed to her younger sister. And so, my younger sister

484
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: reminds me of Kabrini. And that's the one that said's

485
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Speaker 2: her favorite movie. It's the ten year old that says

486
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Speaker 2: is my favorite movie. I think it's resonating because Cabrini

487
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 2: had been given two to five years to live, and

488
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Speaker 2: she built an empire the size of Rockefellers or Vanderbilt.

489
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Speaker 2: And she's this little, tiny Italian immigrant who speaks broken English,

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Speaker 2: and she storms into the Senate. She stands up to

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Speaker 2: the Pope. She takes on pimps, she takes on the

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Speaker 2: mayor of New York who's trying to shut down her orphanages.

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Speaker 2: And no matter how small you are, you can change

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Speaker 2: the world. It doesn't matter how small you are. If

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Speaker 2: you put your mind to it and unite with God,

496
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Speaker 2: you can change the world.

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Speaker 1: Well as you all are change in the world. I

498
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Speaker 1: was really impressed on Rotten Tomatoes. You've got an eighty

499
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Speaker 1: nine out of one hundred for a religious film about

500
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Speaker 1: a saint in the nineteenth century, to get that kind

501
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Speaker 1: of raining.

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Speaker 3: But more important the credits.

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Speaker 4: You know, we make movies for the people, and that's

504
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 4: what matters at the end of the day, you know,

505
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 4: is what people think, you know, because they're the audience.

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Speaker 3: You know that we care.

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Speaker 4: You know, we do movies that are movements, movie to movement,

508
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 4: and Cabrini is going to be definitely a movement that

509
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 4: started when she came to Manhattan, and the movement hasn't stopped.

510
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 4: The movement is going to keep growing, you know, the

511
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Speaker 4: movement of leading by example, the movement of using your

512
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Speaker 4: talents to make this for better place, the movement of

513
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Speaker 4: you know, helping children, helping those who are the most vulnerable.

514
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 4: Just like Sonal Freedom, you know, it was all about

515
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Speaker 4: helping children and saving children. Mother Cabrina was doing the

516
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 4: same thing. And not only that, Mother Cabrinain inspired Mother

517
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Speaker 4: Teresa to become who she became Mother Teressa was teaching

518
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 4: in this private school in India and she knew that

519
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 4: something was missing, and when she started reading about Mother Cabrinney,

520
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 4: that's when she decided to start her own order. And

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00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 4: so somehow Mother Cabrina inspired Mother Teresa another saint. And

522
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Speaker 4: you know, the beauty of this film too, is Alejandro

523
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Speaker 4: didn't do a religious movie.

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Speaker 3: You forget that.

525
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 4: You're watching a movie about a Catholic saint, you know,

526
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Speaker 4: which happens to be the patron of the American immigrants

527
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 4: and the first American CANi saint. But you forget about

528
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Speaker 4: that because we focus on her humanity and we focus

529
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Speaker 4: on all the things that she beat that no matter

530
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Speaker 4: what you believe, you're going to relate to a woman

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Speaker 4: that used her talents to serve others and that religion

532
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Speaker 4: that TransPasses everything. You know, it's a universal language.

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Speaker 2: Screened this with thousands of people, thousands of ordinary people

534
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Speaker 2: before this came out, and the most common thing we

535
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 2: hear is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: Glenn Beck recently just said it was like watching The

537
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: Godfather for the first time. That's how good of a

538
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Speaker 2: movie this is. It is so powerful.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty remarkable tribute.

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00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yes, but it is that good people are

541
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Speaker 2: going to hear it this weekend when the first million

542
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Speaker 2: people come out of the theaters. People are going to

543
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: hear from their friends. That's one of the best movies

544
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Speaker 2: I've ever seen. That's a top three movie for me.

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Speaker 2: That's a top five movie for me. You're going to

546
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Speaker 2: hear it everywhere. I can be confident in that because

547
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Speaker 2: we've screened it so much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And the way how Alehndle directed the movie in

549
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 4: a very sobradic method artistically way of asking questions, you know,

550
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Speaker 4: to the audience, and the movie provokes reflections, you know,

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Speaker 4: I in bate you to reflect to a meditation, you know.

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00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 4: And I hope the people will ask themselves, you know,

553
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Speaker 4: what am I doing with my life? You know, kind

554
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Speaker 4: of a legacy I want to leave behind my life?

555
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Speaker 4: How am I using my talents? What do I want

556
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Speaker 4: to gain in my life?

557
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Speaker 3: And why?

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Speaker 4: This film will definitely will question all that, And I

559
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 4: think it's very important to ask ourselves, you know, am

560
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 4: I saying the truth or not? Am I building or

561
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 4: am I destroying? Am I turning the light on or off?

562
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Speaker 4: What am I doing with my life, you know, so

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Speaker 4: Mother Cabrille will question in a way that is very effective.

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Speaker 4: I hope you know the audience and the movie. The

565
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Speaker 4: movie begins when the movie finished, because now I want

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Speaker 4: you to carry the legacy of Mother ca Bret in

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Speaker 4: your own life when you leave the theater.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that she founded the Missionary Sisters in

569
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Speaker 1: the Sacred Heart of Jesus there now, I think in

570
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Speaker 1: sixteen different countries are on all six of the occupied comments.

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Speaker 1: We think of her as an American saint, but she

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Speaker 1: had a worldwide impact.

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Speaker 4: Exactly more than sixty hospitals, orphanitures, school, I mean everything.

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Speaker 4: She was amazing because she was not focusing on herself.

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Speaker 4: She was asking that this helped me to help. You know,

576
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 4: there's and she never give up. You know, now knew.

577
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 4: There's men and women that I see and they're depressed.

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00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 4: I want to ask them why. Well, I didn't get

579
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Speaker 4: a lot of lights on my social media in my

580
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Speaker 4: last post.

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about? You know?

582
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 4: And literally the whole wark comes into their shoulders because

583
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 4: of stupid little things said.

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Speaker 3: You need to see Cabrini. You don't see what these

585
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 3: women went through. And she never gave up.

586
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: Plus, they're gonna love the movie. They're gonna love them movie, right,

587
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 2: They're just gonna absolutely love the storytelling. But you come

588
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: out of it changed that you're inspired to be a

589
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Speaker 2: better person.

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Speaker 3: And never to give up, never to give up.

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't realize that she'd almost drowned as

592
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Speaker 1: a child, and she was terrified of water, but she

593
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: overcame that fear to my twenty three transatlantic trip. So

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00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: sometimes when people worry about whatever's currently worrying them, she's

595
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: a remarkable case study of courage, commitment, and faith. But

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Speaker 1: I have to ask you one of them. With the film,

597
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Speaker 1: you have a remarkable cast, which I think is a

598
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Speaker 1: sign of the growing acceptance of how important your work is.

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00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: I think in that sense, people are going to be

600
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Speaker 1: really impressed just with the people who are now starring

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Speaker 1: in your film.

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Speaker 4: You know, I have to give a credit to Alejandro.

603
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 4: He's a master on discovering talent. You know, there's so

604
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 4: many actresses who wanted to become Mother Cabrini.

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Speaker 3: You know, first of all, she needed to be by

606
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Speaker 3: lingual because the.

607
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Speaker 4: First few minutes of the movie she's in Italy, so

608
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Speaker 4: she's speaking Italian. But then when they moved to America.

609
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Speaker 4: You know, there's one scene where she says, we're in America.

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Speaker 4: We speak English now, you know, even though in real

611
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 4: life Mother Cabrini was speaking with the broken English, the

612
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 4: actress speaks perfect English, you know, so she was faking it.

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Speaker 3: She was acting, of course, like if she didn't know

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Speaker 3: English very well.

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Speaker 4: But Alejandro discovered this amazing Italian actress who literally you

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Speaker 4: forget that you are watching Mother Cabrini. The cast as

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Speaker 4: you said, you know, Alejandri's very good in every movie,

618
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Speaker 4: in Bella, in Little Boy, in Sound of Freedom.

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Speaker 3: He's like a casting director. He's a multitask.

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Speaker 4: He's a writer, he's a director, he's an actor, he's

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Speaker 4: a producer, and he's a casting director as well. Even

622
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Speaker 4: though we hire an amazing casting director, he's very good

623
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Speaker 4: in discovering and hiring the right actor for the right roles.

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Speaker 4: And Christiana did an amazing job as Mother Cabrini. And

625
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Speaker 4: you know, she should win every single award because her

626
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 4: performance was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: The critics are saying that. The critics are saying, it's

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Speaker 2: an Oscar worthy performance, It's an Oscar caliber film. Whether

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Speaker 2: or not that happens. I thought Sound of Freedom had

630
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Speaker 2: some actors that deserves some nominations, but I'm not the

631
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Speaker 2: one who nominates them.

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Speaker 4: So we need to start the Angel Awards.

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Speaker 1: You know, I should point out to our listeners so

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Speaker 1: that they can go to Angel dot com, slash Cabrini

635
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Speaker 1: and by Tech is now available.

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Speaker 2: It's in theaters right now and it is selling out

637
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Speaker 2: all over the place. Hard to get tickets to certain showings,

638
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 2: but you can go to Angel dot com, slash Cabrini

639
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Speaker 2: and get those tickets.

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Speaker 1: That's great. Well, Jeff and Edward, I want to thank

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00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: you for the commitment you've made both to change the

642
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: film business and to bring stories to life that are

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Speaker 1: inspirational and that really help move the country to a

644
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: much healthier culture and a much healthier future. And these

645
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: are often stories that would never have gotten through the

646
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Speaker 1: traditional Hollywood studio processing. And not only do I wish

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Speaker 1: you what is already clearly going to be a successful

648
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Speaker 1: opening weekend at the box office, but I also have

649
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Speaker 1: to say I'm looking forward to a future interview on

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Speaker 1: your next project because I know you're going to continue

651
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Speaker 1: to do great work. Thank you both for taking this

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Speaker 1: kind of.

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Speaker 4: Time well near the worlds together, Armano, Thank you so

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Speaker 4: much for the incredible work that you do, and thank

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Speaker 3: And again, together with Stronger and together.

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Speaker 4: With the help of God, and now with the intercession

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Speaker 4: of other cabrin I'm sure great things will happen in

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Speaker 2: Thank you newt for having us on. We appreciate having

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Speaker 2: a chance to tell the story of such an incredible woman,

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Speaker 2: and it matters so much for me, as a father

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Speaker 2: about this film.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to my guests Jeff Harmon and Edward Overestigate.

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Speaker 1: You can watch the Cabrini movie trailer and get a

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Speaker 1: dot com. Newtsworld is produced by gingwickh three sixty and iHeartMedia.

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Speaker 1: Our executive producer is Guernsey Sloan. Our researcher is Rachel Peterson.

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Speaker 1: The artwork for the show was created by Steve Penley.

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Speaker 1: Special thanks to them of Gingwick three sixty. If you've

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